Hackney carriage drivers, barristers at law, ladies (and gentlemen of the night-note how PC I am...) and estate agents. Which two of these professions share similarities in their conduct? Brownie points and the last Rolo if you correctly selected estate agents and those from the Cynthia Payne Finishing School. Why? Because under current legislation we do not have to accept a fare or brief. Before anyone...
April 2016
Further to last week's 'word of the week' that was in vogue with the popular press, we have been amused to read that the stampeding continues (everyone must be exhausted). At the forefront, was a company called Oldbury Residential, who, it is reported, have completed the purchase of four properties in Manchester and succeeded in doing so before the stamp duty deadline. In the process they saved themselves...
So said the 15 times re-elected Republican senator, Henry Hyde. Judicious words, as one would expect,or at least hope from someone who chaired the Judiciary Committee and the International Relations Committee at the time of 9/11. Considered and measured behaviour has been in short supply over the past few days, whereby everyone's favoured course of action has been to err on the side of hysteria as...
Yesterday was either April Fools' Day if following the Gregorian calendar, or the first day of the New Year if stuck in a 1582 time warp and clinging to the Julian calendar. Either way, 1 April ushered in a "whole new world" according to various parts of the popular press, as Chancellor Gideon saw the first day of his "draconian measures" being implemented that cover the buying and selling of property....
